Rain dampened the Valley Fire and allowed firefighters to stop fighting desperately to save structures and move to the offense. They now have rammed in containment lines around 40% of the perimeter and the fire has only increased about 700 acres from yesterday morning’s total.

However, warmer and drier weather arrives today. By Sunday the temperatures are expected to be in the 90’s.

Authorities are reporting multiple fatalities and tremendous destruction of property. So far there have been three confirmed deaths and the Lake County Sheriff says he expects to find more. 585 homes are reported to be destroyed at this point. But, Cal Fire points out, “As access improves and additional information becomes available, the numbers of damaged or destroyed structures will change. The inspection process is meticulous and ongoing.”

Information is constantly coming in from the frontlines of the fire. To help you stay abreast of the most current information, the sidebar to the right has the latest tweets about the #ValleyFire. And we have the most current maps available as of 8 a.m.

Here are four of the best:

Zoom into this one (Cal Fire public information map) or this one (Cal Fire Ops Map) to get lots of detail but they take time to load.